Hare system
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Hare system may be criticised from two points of view; first, as applied to the conditions prevailing when it is introduced, and, secondly, as regards the new conditions it would bring about.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
John Stuart Mill.—The great vogue which the Hare system has obtained is to be traced more to the influence of John Stuart Mill than to that of anyone else.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
It is not necessary that every vote should be counted to some one candidate, as the advocates of the Hare system claim.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
But they are guilty of far more than that, for in another chapter of Mill's book we find that his conception of a representative assembly elected by the Hare system is a purely deliberative body.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
The single transferable vote, generally known as the Hare system, was first invented by a Danish statesman, M. Andrae, and was used for the election of a portion of the "Rigsraad" in 1855.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
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